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. J. MATTHEWS, Deol.l

E.`MATTHEWS, G. MATTHEWS, and F. MATTHEWS Executors.` DISPENSING EAUGET EUR SODA WATER AND OTHER BEVERAGES.

No. 289,547. Y Patented Dec. 4, 1883.

Nrrnn STATES PATENT Ormes. A

JOI-IN MATTHEWS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.; ELIZABETH MATTHEVS, GEORGE MATTHEWS, AND FREDERICK MATTHEVS MATTHEVS, DEGEASED.

EXEOUTORS OF SAID JOHN DlSPENSlNG-FAUCET FOR SODA-WATER AND OTHER BEVERAGES. j

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters fatent No. 289,547, dated December 4, 1883.

Application filed December 15, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN MATTHEWS, of New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented an Improved Dispensing-Faucet for Soda-Water and other Bever# ages, of which the following is a specification.

Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal central section of my improved faucet; Fig. 2, a vertical cross-section of the body of the faucet,

Fig. 3, a top view thereof, and Fig. 4 a horizontal section on the line 7c 7c, Fig. 2.

This invention relates to certain improvements in the dispensing-faucet described in Letters Patent No. 38,57 7 granted to Villiam Gee, May 19, 1863. Y

In faucets of the character referred to in said patent there is provision for discharging two streams of liquid-one finer and the other larger-thereby obtaining certain advantages in the manner of dispensing soda-water or other aerated beverages.

My invention consists in certain details of construction, by which the character of such a faucet is materially improved, said details being hereinafter more fully referred to.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A represents the body of the faucet, the same being made cross-shaped, as indicated in Fig. l-that is to say, with four tubular projections,

c b c d. B is the liquid-supply pipe, which is connected by a screw-coupling with the projection a ofthe faucet. `The downward projection d of the faucet constitutes the dischargenozzle. In the upward projection c are the guide parts for a vertical spindle, C, which carries at its lower end a valve, D. In the other horizontal projection, b, 'of the faucet are the guiding parts for a spindle, E, carrying avalve, F.

40 Ihe main obj ect which I had in view in making this invention was to expose the liquid on its passage through the faucet to contact with a non-corrosive metal only-such as tin-and to avoid contaminating it, as is the case in faucets of inferior construction, by contact with the brass or other substance of which the body of the faucet is constructed. In order to arrive at this result, I construct my faucet with an inner lining, G, of cast-tin, which lining,

5o by the core of the mold from which it is cast,

is so formed as to produce the horizontal seat e for the valve D, the vertical passage f below the valve D, the vertical seat g for the valve F, and the horizontal passage h, which is aligned with the supply-tube B and with the spindle E, and at right angles, substantially, with the passage f, both said passages communicating the one with the other. 'Ihe said lining G in the nozzle part d of the fau-` cet is of the cross-section shown in Fig. 4- 6o to wit, Vsubstantially representing the figure 8-so as to form the larger discharge-tube@ and the smaller dischargetube j, the latter being incased within a recess provided for its reception in the body of the faucet, ras indicated in Fig. 4.. The tube j extends up into the chamber Z, which surrounds the valve D, and communicates with the tube f whenever the valve D is opened. In such case the small stream will be discharged from the faucet; but 7o when the valve D is closed and the valve F opened, the liquid will pass from the tube B through the passage 72. into the larger tube i. which communicates with the chamber m, that surrounds the valve F. 'Ihe inner ends ofthe 75 packing boxes' or glands a and o of the respective valve-spindles are protected each by a coating of tin, `so that they will not expose any contaminating :metal to contact with the liquid. 8o

In order to facilitate the production of the lining G having the features herein described, the body of the faucet, which is made of brass, cast-iron, orother suitable material, is provided with interior short vertical lugs, p and 8 5 q, (shown in Fig. 1,) so as to permit of the lining for the passage f, and with a horizontal extension, if', which i's shown in Figs. 1 and 2, so as to furnish a support for the metal ofthe passage h and a brace to the upper end of the 9o tube i.

The valves D F are by preference of leather, grasped in the dovetailed ends of their respective spindles. Said valves,bearing on the seats of the soft-metal lining, are self-htting and 9 5 tight-closing gates that prevent the passage of the liquid when its discharge is not desired.

I claim 1. The faucet-body A, constructed with the tubular projections c b c d, and with the inner 1o lugs, p q, that are parallel with projection c, 4. The faucet A, combined With reciprocatand extension @which is parallel With the pr0- ing Valves D and F, constructed as described, jection a, substantially as herein shown and and With the soft-metal inner lining, G, form- 15 described. ing annular seats for the faces of said valves,

. 5 .2. Thefziucet-bodyA,combined withthe conas set forth.

tinuous inner lining, G, which forms passages f h and tubes i j, substantiallyas herein shown JOHN MATTHEWS.

and described. f

3. In a. faucet, the nozzle d, having inner re- Vtnesses: Io cess, combined with the inner lining` forming DAVID VHITE,

tubes ij, the smaller of which enters said re- J. HECTOR FEZANDI.

cess, 1substantially its described. 

